Sentence examples for of sensible knowledge from inspiring English sources

The action of divine illumination is therefore neither a direct donation of intelligible contents, independent of the conditions of sensible knowledge, nor is it a simple purification, preparation or refinement of the mind in order to predispose it to intellectual knowledge.

But is this a sensible knowledge?

Accordingly, in order to generate knowledge of sensible entities and intelligible meaning-configurations the conceptual forms of our cognition must apply to both domains.

Thus, when it comes to knowledge of sensible objects, for example, the mind has both a passive role (receiving sense impressions) and an active one (constructing knowledge from these impressions).

Mathematical entities are idealizations made by way of abstraction from our knowledge of sensible things.

It is knowledge of sensible things which is primary and thus prior to the "order of learning" the philosophical sciences.

What does it offer them to keep the fear at bay? Knowledge of sensible realities comes to life inside the tissue of experience.

It was a campaign devoid of sensible planning, coherent purpose and knowledge of the region.

On this view, since a philosophical account of knowledge does not appeal to an independent faculty of sensible intuition, Cohen insists that the project he had previously called the "critique of knowledge" now becomes the "logic of pure knowledge".

In the Logic, Cohen rejects Kant's view that (in human knowledge) there is a faculty of sensible intuition that is independent of the faculty of understanding.

Plato held that for Heraclitus knowledge is made impossible by the flux of sensible objects.